Bunny
boilers are extremely dangerous now that no proof is needed to obtain a
conviction is sex cases - Chris Grayling justice minister will be asked
to review Sexual Offences Act presumption of guilt, which breaches
Article 6 right to a fair hearing

SEX
ATTACK LIAR NAMED BY PEER
- 19th October 2006 by
SAM GREENHILL

A
woman with a long history of crying rape who sent an innocent man to jail
was named in Parliament amid calls for a change in the law.

Shannon
Taylor was unmasked by a peer who told the House of Lords her lies had put
father-of-two Warren Blackwell behind bars for more than three years.

Lord
Campbell-Savours

Lord
Campbell-Savours used Parliamentary privilege to expose her identity and
lambast the 'shabby' police investigation that saw Mr Blackwell
imprisoned.

Legal
experts praised his decision to speak out to prevent other men falling
victim to fake sex attack allegations.

Mr
Blackwell, 36, whose loyal wife Tanya never doubted his innocence, was
dramatically cleared at the Appeal Court last month after Miss Taylor's
background as a serial fantasist was exposed by a Criminal Cases Review
Commission investigation.

But
although his name was blackened, anonymity laws meant his accuser's was
automatically protected, and she became known only as Miss A.

Even
the appeal judges wanted to name her - but were powerless to do so - to
warn other blameless members of the public.

The
Daily Mail led calls for her identity to be revealed before she put
another innocent man through torment.

Yesterday,
Lord Campbell-Savours - said to be motivated by 'outrage' at the case -
stood up and publicly did so.

He
asked fellow peers: "Is not the inevitable consequence of the
workings of the law, as currently framed, that we will carry on
imprisoning innocent people like Warren Blackwell, who was falsely accused
by a serial and repeated liar, Shannon Taylor, with a history of false
accusations and multiple identities?

"As
a result of her accusations, he spent three and a half years in prison
following a shabby and inadequate police investigation, and was only
exonerated when the Criminal Cases Review Commission inquiry cleared him
and exposed her history."

The
Labour peer added: "Shouldn't mature accusers who perjure themselves
in rape trials be named and prosecuted for perjury?"

Miss
Taylor's own daughter backed the decision to disclose her name, saying:
"She is a danger and the public needs to be warned. She needs
prosecuting for what she did. She is every man's worst nightmare."

Mr
Blackwell's ordeal began when his accuser, now 38, claimed she had been
seized with a knife outside a village club early on New Year's Day 1999,
taken to an alley and indecently assaulted.

She
later picked him out of an identity parade and a jury found him guilty,
even though there was no forensic evidence against him and he had no
previous convictions.

Eventually,
the case was investigated by the Criminal Cases Review Commission which
found that the woman had made up at least seven other fake allegations of
sexual and physical assault, including against her own father. She
frequently changed her name and police forces did not realise they were
dealing with the same woman.

Her
own mother has described her as "a persistent liar, very manipulative
and a bully" who frequently claimed to have been beaten, sexually
attacked and raped - all of which were untrue. She has a history of mental
illness and self-harm.

The
original investigation by Northamptonshire Police was exposed as shoddy,
with Mr Blackwell's lawyers claiming that normal safeguards and procedures
were completely ignored. He plans to sue.

Yesterday,
a friend of 63-year-old Lord Campbell-Savours explained why he decided to
speak out. He said: "He named
her because he was outraged. He doesn't think it's got anything to do with
the issue of rape, he thinks it's an issue of perjury.

"This
woman made up the story and told lies and he can't see why a person who
has perjured themselves should be protected, irrespective of the type of
offence.

"Sometimes
people have to stick their heads above the parapet in cases where the law
is clearly an ass and needs to be reformed.

"He
thinks the law around anonymity,
particularly where false accusations have been made, needs to be
changed."

Welcoming
the development, Mr Blackwell, from Woodford Halse, Northamptonshire,
said: "It's absolutely fantastic. I didn't think anybody would have
the guts to name her.

"This
woman needs to be stopped. The fact is, she remains free to carry on
crying rape and up till now has been enjoying the full protection of the
law. It's absolutely crazy that she could not be named and shamed, because
innocent men need to be warned to avoid her like the plague.

"Now
I hope she will go on to be prosecuted." But she is unlikely to face
charges for perjury or perverting justice.

Northamptonshire
Police yesterday claimed there was "insufficient evidence",
while Crown Prosecution sources have cited her mental illness as a
barrier.

But
Mr Blackwell's barrister Anne Johnson said: "There is a clear public
interest in her being prosecuted for perjury or the very least wasting
police time.

"It's
fantastic that somebody of authority has finally come out and named this
woman. The issue needs to be aired otherwise nothing will be done."

At
Mr Blackwell's appeal last month, Mr Justice Tugendhat admitted that
similar tragic cases could follow because of the lies of the 'Miss A',
adding that Parliament had not seemed to have considered this possibility
when framing the law. Last night the judge said he did not wish to comment
on yesterday's twist.

In
the 1970s, the Daily Mail campaigned for women in sex cases to be granted
automatic anonymity, to protect genuine victims of genuine crimes.
Although Miss Taylor has now been publicly named, there is nothing to stop
her changing her identity yet again.

Callers
to her most recent address were told by her boyfriend that she no longer
lived there.

Here's
what readers have had to say so far. Why not add your thoughts below?

It
is unfortunate that in my opinion women seem to be able to make
allegations and men are treated as guilty unless proven innocent. This
spills over into family law where this happens all the time. It is time
for laws to be changed and the system to be exposed for what it is. I
take my hat of to the judge for naming this women. It is about time that
more professional people i.e. judges and lawyers started looking at what
is right and wrong instead of either following there own political
agenda or lining their own pockets.

- Lisa Lipscombe, Burlington, Canada

The
sentencing for false accusations of rape should be as harsh, and
enforced as harshly, as rape itself.

The USA also needs to wake up to the many false allegations of rape that
are putting innocent men in jail.

Mr
Justice Tugendhat admitted, however, that similar tragic cases could
follow because of the lies of the woman, Miss A.

"Parliament
does not seem to have contemplated this situation.

"There
appears to be no means of displacing her entitlement to anonymity."

In
the 1970s, the Daily Mail campaigned for women in sex cases to be
granted automatic anonymity, but now there are questions about whether the
law has gone too far.

Warren
Blackwell's nightmare began when Miss A, now 38, claimed she had been
seized with a knife outside a village club early on New Year's Day 1999,
taken to an alley and indecently assaulted.

She
later picked Mr Blackwell out at an identity parade.

There
was no forensic evidence against him and he had no previous convictions.

'She
needs to be stopped'

Yet
Mr Blackwell, from Woodford Halse, Northamptonshire, was found guilty and
spent three years and four months behind bars.

Eventually
the case was referred to the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) which
assigned Detective Chief Inspector Steve Glover, to investigate. He
discovered that the woman:
• Has made at least five other fake allegations of sexual and physical
assault to police in three separate forces.
• Was married twice and made false allegations against both husbands -
one of whom was a policeman.
• Once accused her own father of sexual assault, but police concluded
she had made it up.
• Accused a boy of rape when she was a teenager, only for a doctor to
discover she was still a virgin.
• The CCRC concluded that in the case of Mr Blackwell, she had
"lied about the assault and was not attacked at all, her injuries
being self-inflicted".

The
Crown Prosecution Service did not oppose the appeal.

David
Farrell QC, for the Crown, said: "This conviction is unsafe. What has
come out of the woodwork paints a picture of a woman with immense personal
problems with serious difficulties in distinguishing between truth and
lies."

If
this information had been known at the time of the trial, he added,
"this case would not have made it off the ground".

Mr
Blackwell said: "Clearly something has to be done about this woman.
She needs to be stopped. The prosecution say she is psychiatrically
disturbed, but insane people who murder are tried and if found guilty put
away."

Mr
Blackwell, who plans to sue police over his ordeal, will now have his name
removed from the Sex Offender Register.

His
accuser has a history of mental illness and self-harm - once inscribing
the word 'HATE' on her body with scissors.

However,
because she has changed her name at least eight times, and moved between
addresses in at least three counties, it seems police never realised they
were dealing with the same woman.

For
Mr Blackwell, her accusations meant he missed more than three years of
family life. His son Liam, ten, and stepdaughter Holly, 16, were three and
nine when his ordeal began.

His
36-year-old wife said: "I never doubted him for a second. We were
together six years before it happened, and ever since."

48
people have commented on this story so far. Tell the Mail on Sunday what
you think using the links above.

I
think that most right-thinking people would support a change to allow
these people to be identified. It might even have some deterrent effect.
- Gordon Littlewood, Valenciennes, France

When
you name the accused guilty or not you should also name the accuser. If
his photo is published then so should hers be. Let's have things equal
and fair all round.
- Mike, Wadebridge, UK.

This
government does not have the time to waste on changing this law they are
all too busy jostling for the top office job.
- Gordon Myatt, Swansea UK

Gordon
Staker works for the Child Protection Unit in Eastbourne, East Sussex.
He is involved in the so-called Herstmonceux Bunny Boiler case
heard in February 2008. We are closely following this
case for any developments and other similar cases. Any member of the
public targeted by a Child Protection Unit, would do well to note the
case management tactics employed by Henrietta
Pagett, where it is usual for the CPS to prosecute persons with an
unrelated criminal record. This is because those unfortunates will be
advised not to disclose their history, so as not to put this before a
Jury. Should you be advised to go this route, you will not be able to
call your accuser or any of the Crown's witnesses liars, even when they
are not telling the truth. Additionally, you will not be able to call
character witnesses. Hence, you will be fighting a case with one hand
behind your back, heavily outnumbered by the volume of witnesses the
Crown will call. Food for thought!

Many
of our readers will know that hundreds of men each year (many teachers)
suffer accusations from girls with a grudge, many of which turn out to
be false and revenge motivated.

Many
policemen are Masons. This can lead to corruption at high levels,
where fellow Masons, members of the public, might obtain favours, charges
dropped, or charges brought against someone, as examples. The law is
quite often used incorrectly (illegally) to further the objectives of
private causes. But who is there to investigate? Since many, if not most
high ranking officers are Masons, in whichever force, even an outside
force is unlikely to identify an officer who will make any effort to
investigate a fellow officer. It's a club, for a favoured few.

The
above is just a few of a number of persons likely to be investigated in
respect of certain cases brought against Wealden Action Group members, on
the instigation of known Masons, councillors, or planning officers, many
of which are themselves Masons.

PORRIDGE
- YOUTUBE

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